Opening Summer 2025
Yellowave are delighted to have been chosen by Brighton & Hove City Council as the preferred provider of a new beach sports venue on Hove seafront as part of the Kingsway to the Sea project.
The centre, to be built within the Hove Beach Park development, will include three sand courts for beach volleyball, beach tennis and footvolley, alongside a multi-use area which can be used for 5-a-side beach soccer, life saving training and fitness. It is hoped that by summer 2025, the first players should be enjoying sand between their toes.
“We are thrilled to be able to bring beach sports to Hove. We will be working with a whole host of local sports clubs, schools and colleges to offer more beach volleyball, beach tennis and beach soccer in the city to complement the sports on offer at our Madeira Drive site.”
Katie Mintram, Yellowave Director
Yellowave Hove will also include a sports reception, small cafe, disabled toilet with baby change, free kids’ sand pit along with a hireable Beach Hut room providing an indoor space available for community activities, such as school beach education days, yoga, first aid training and parent and toddler groups.
The Yellowave investment will bring new life to the area, renovating the old bowls pavilion and creating a wonderful space for players, families and passers by to wander through and enjoy both participating in and spectating the beach sports on offer.
Yellowave Brighton, which opened its doors in 2007, has been an enormous success, most recently being selected as a National Beach Volleyball Development Centre by the UK governing body, Volleyball England.
The venue offers all state schools in Brighton and Hove ten hours free use of their courts in the off-peak season and last year ran a city-wide secondary school’s beach volleyball tournament which fed new players into a youth training programme.
In a first for the city, a brand-new Volleyball Academy will be offered by BHASVIC college, where students will train at Yellowave as part of their study programme. Also working with Yellowave are Hove Park School, who will provide the secondary school section to the pathway, allowing young people in the city a chance to excel in their development as volleyball athletes.
“This is incredibly exciting news. it is wonderful to see a strategy that integrates education with sports. This initiative will provide significant opportunities to the youth in Brighton and Hove, as well as a boost for the sport of beach volleyball.”
Kirk Pitman, Volleyball England Beach Volleyball Performance Director
“As born and bred locals living in Hove, this site is even more special to us. Working with the schools that we attended as kids, to get more young people taking part in sand sports, lifesaving and beach education is something we feel delighted to be able to deliver.”
Spencer Mintram, Yellowave Director
Silver winners of the Tourism South East Awards in the ‘most ethical, responsible and sustainable business’ category, Yellowave Hove hopes to open it’s doors in summer 2025.
The project is currently in the hands of Brighton and Hove City Planning department. As soon as planning consent is approved, work will start on site.
Yellowave have been working with Brighton architectural practice LRA to create the design. The building works will be completed by building contractors Focus Building & Development.
All artist’s impressions created by architect practice LRA